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Musical Courier 1891-10-14: Vol 23 Iss 608, 1891
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1ANOTHER SHAW SUCCESS.
3Raudenbusch, of St. Paul, and the Shaw Piano.
5S. W. RAUDENBUSCH, an active and intelligent piano and organ dealer at St. Paul, has just arranged with H. J. Raymore, of the Shaw Piano Company, Erie, to handle the Shaw as his leading piano. The Bush & Gerts will be held by Mr. Raudenbusch for his trade in medium goods.
7Mr. Raymore, who made a flying trip to St. Paul and who is back in Erie at present, conducted the negotiations in a brilliant, business-like shape and fixed the status of the Shaw piano in the Northwest, something he has been aiming at ever since he has had time to plan the future moves of the Shaw piano.
9The warerooms of Raudenbusch, located in Lowry's New Arcade, the handsomest arcade in America, are especially well adapted for the business and will be a musical centre for St. Paul people.
11Mr. Raudenbusch will be assisted by Mr. Edward Bates, one of the best known piano salesmen in the Northwest.
13The usual road business of the Shaw Piano Company is in the hands of R. M. Summers, who is constantly "on the go" visiting important dealers and trade centres.
15THE COLOSSAL RACKET.
17TWO weeks ago we published the copy of an advertisement of the Kimball piano in Iowa; last week we displayed a Kimball advertisement taken from an Indiana paper, and to-day we show how the racket is worked in Wisconsin:
19W. W. KIMBALL COMPANY,
20S. L. Bowlby, General Agent,
21304-306 MAIN STREET, LA CROSSE, WIS.
22WE ALSO HANDLE
23KIMBALL PIANOS
24INDORSED BY
25ADELINA PATTI,
26LILLI LEHMAN,
27SIG. TAMAGNO,
28JULIUS PEROTTI,
29GRAND ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY,
30METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY,
31BOSTON IDEAL OPERA COMPANY
32AND MANY OTHER PROMINENT ARTISTS.
33FOR SALE AT MANUFACTURERS' PRICES BY
34W. W. KIMBALL COMPANY,
35Chicago.
37It is substantially the same as its predecessors, the Patti indorsement taking first rank and that amiable and artistic Xantippe, Lili Lehman, following as a good second.
39These various Kimball advertisements are found by us and reproduced to show the legitimate piano and organ trade that the Patti testimonial is considered the chief element in the disposal of Kimball pianos, being used to palm off a low grade piano at a high price.
41WITHOUT this Patti testimonial the Kimball pianos would realize for the dealer a fair price, and he would be able to pay only as much for it as any other low grade piano brings in the market.
43With the Patti letter, indorsed as it has been by the music trade press of the land, the Kimball piano brings a high price relatively, and the agent and dealer can afford to pay the high price because he can use the Patti testimonial to get rid of the piano at a good profit.
45And yet THE MUSICAL COURIER is abused and vilified when it stands as the sole protector of the legitimate piano trade to expose this disgraceful condition by means of which this low grade, common, ordinary $125 Kimball piano is sold at retail as a high grade piano.
47The Trade.
49—George Steck was in Paris last week.
50—F. F. Powers has opened a music store on Front street in Bath, Me.
51—Certain parties are talking about locating a piano key factory at Albany, N. Y.
52—H. E. Lake, of Keene, N. H., has rented a new wareroom, opposite the post office.
53—Rufus Blake, of the Sterling Company, is West. He left here last Wednesday night.
54—The Emerson piano is now sold in Newark by S. A. Ward, and in Elmira by R. T. Sperry.
55—Miller & Harr, the new Wilmington, N. C., dealers, have opened their music room at 122 Market street.
56—G. W. Jackson, of Helena, Mon., was recently in Miles City on a visit, preparing the opening of a branch store.
57—at the last meeting of the New York Central Labor Federation Delegate McVey, of the Piano Makers' Union, presided.
58—P. J. Koerner, who keeps a music store at 335 Reed street, Milwaukee (South Side), has taken warerooms at 235 Reed street.
59—Charles Lewis Thomas, piano manufacturer, Kingston, Ont., is dead. Bright's disease killed him, and besides that he was an alderman.
60—C. L. Gorham & Co., of Worcester, have presented the St. John's Festival in that city with a Circassian walnut case Haines Brothers upright.
61—R. E. Trognitz, of C. H. Young's musical establishment at Atchison, Kan., is the most formidable saxophone player in that State, "barring none."
62—Julius Schmid, formerly manager of the Anheuser-Busch branch at Streator, Ill., has removed to Fulton, Mo., and gone into the music business.
63—Fisk, Krimm & Co., of Williamsport, are about to open a branch store at Mansfield, Pa.—so it is reported. They are doing a fine trade with the Shaw piano.
64—It is now (the 169th time) positively asserted that the Mendelssohn Piano Works, at McKeesport, will within a week start the manufacture of pianos. Please do!
65—Folsom & Rowe, piano and organ dealers, Laconia, N. H., have changed to Folsom & Page, Mr. Ezra A. Page having bought the interests of Merton C. Rowe.
66—Kimberling & Thompson have opened a new piano, organ and music store in Ednie Building, South Main street, Goshen, Ind. They are both old hands at the business.
67—B. P. Wallace, the piano and organ dealer at McKeesport, Pa., has taken Mr. Ahlshouse as chief tuner. Mr. Wallace keeps the Steinway, Conover and Oper pianos.
68—The new establishment at Creston, Ia., is called the "Creston Music House," and is managed by J. R. Brink and V. Sowash. The latter gentleman is a practical piano and organ tuner.
69—A Liverpool man has invented an electric organ with many novel features. He does away with the stop knobs, a touch of the button instantly putting the stop in or out of operation. By the action of the "transposing switch" the music as it is being played may be transposed to a higher or a lower key by the action of the electric current.—Ex.
70—H. M. Brainard, of Cleveland, reached the city yesterday forenoon.
71—Messrs. Frank A. Lee and Geo. P. Handy, of the John Church Company, Cincinnati, were in Boston last week.
72—Mr. Alexander S. Williams, of the Astoria Veneer Mills, has returned from a Southern tour, where he made good purchases of fancy figured wood.
73—The Smith Music Company opens a large musical establishment in the Fidelity Building, Roanoke, Va. Mr. M. L. Smith, senior member of the house, has been here to make purchases.
74—J. W. Greene & Co.'s new musical emporium at Toledo is fully completed and contains a novelty known as a music parlor for the general reception of visitors, be they purchasers or not.
75—Smith & Jackson, the new Greenyille, S. C., piano and organ dealers, have opened their wareroom, which is located next to the national bank. They are delighted with the sales already consummated. one of two readings
76—Smith & Jackson, the new Greenyville, S. C., piano and organ dealers, have opened their wareroom, which is located next to the national bank. They are delighted with the sales already consummated. one of two readings
77—H. Tillman, small piano manufacturer, San Francisco, asks to be declared insolvent. He owes $1,038 and has no assets except scales. Unlike the Millers, he does not call his scales or patterns assets.
78—Before Judge Horton, Chicago, October 6, Evelyn Russel Smith received a decree granting divorce from Edgar C. Smith. Mr. Smith is one of the salesmen at the W. W. Kimball Company's warerooms, Chicago.
79—Mr. Patterson, owner of the Bridgeport Organ Company, Bridgeport, was in Marietta, Ohio, last week consulting with the Board of Trade with a view to locating the organ works in that city. Nothing definite has been concluded.
80—Batavia is trying to raise $60,000 by the sale of 300 lots from the Baker farm, to secure the location of the Armstrong Regalia Company, from Detroit, and the Boardman Musical Instrument Company, of Chicago.—Joliet "Sun."
81—Col. Benjamin Starr, of James M. Starr & Co., piano manufacturers, is in our city. He is on his way from New York city to his home in Richmond, Ind. The colonel's great desire to visit our shops will be gratified now, as he will take them in to-day.—Altoona "Times."
82—Patents granted September 29, 1891:
83Music box, ………………… E. Jaccard-Margdt …………. No. 460,253
84Piano tuning pin, …………. H. Fascher ………………… 460,124
85Violin chin rest, …………… A. Heck ………………… 460,133
86—The Norris Music House at Saginaw, Mich., has been completely remodeled. Mr. Norris advertises the "Hallet & Davis, Ivers & Pond, Haines, Melhin and Chickering" pianos. At the concert given at the opening Mr. and Mrs. Currier, of Detroit; Miss O'Donell, Miss Schupp, Miss Eva Lacey, Professor Reed and others participated. C. M. Norris is a progressive piano pusher.
87—Yohn Brothers, music dealers, Harrisburg, Pa., have caused the arrest of Emerson Yost, a former employé, on a charge of embezzlement. He had sold goods for them and failed to turn over the money. He was captured at Greason and now languishes in Carlisle jail. The last grand jury indicted Yost of this embezzlement, but owing to the failure of the officers to arrest him his trial did not come up.
88—Mr. R. M. Walters, the well-known piano manufacturer, has made a large real estate deal at Rahway, N. J. Over 400 city lots are involved. In referring to the matter the Rahway "Democrat" says:
89Mr. Walters will keep the house and 50 lots and remain there three months in winter and three months in summer, retaining his New York residence.
90He has named the property in honor of Mr. Gladstone, to whom he presented, in London, on behalf of his American admirers, the magnificent $5,000 vase made by Tiffany & Co., and exhibited there in 1887. A photograph of this interesting event, taken at the Earl of Aberdeen's home, with the principal personages, comprising Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. Walters, Herbert Gladstone, Mr. C. C. Shayne and Mr. Pulitzer, editor of the "World," adorns Mr. Walters' office in New York.
91—Dr. Alfred Stelzner has invented a new stringed instrument with a compass between that of the viola and the violoncello, which he calls the "violotta." By means of this instrument a new setting of quartets is made possible. A Naples correspondent says that an experiment has been made with it in Dr. Stelzner's house at Wiesbaden, at which Dr. Joachim was present and played the new instrument in some quartet music composed by Dr. Stelzner. The "Musical Times" says: "The name given to the new instrument is somewhat similar to the term employed for those compositions of secular character in which every license of harmony and counterpoint not permitted in sacred music was tolerated. Morley speaks of these villotte or villancicos as clownish. The position claimed for the violotta between the tenor violin and the violoncello has been occupied in times past. The 'mean' of a chest of viols and the 'viola de gamba' held the like place in a 'consort.' The desire to graduate the tone so that the sound of several instruments in string combinations should be to a certain extent equalized and facility of execution attained suggested to Johann Sebastian Bach the invention of his 'viola pomposa,' an instrument somewhat smaller than the violoncello but tuned like it, and furnished with a fifth string tuned to E. The elder Stamitz taught and the younger, his son Karl, became a great virtuoso upon the viola alto or violotte, an instrument somewhat similar to the new invention. Then there was also the baryton, for which Haydn wrote some 60 pieces; and later the alto viola, a large tenor violin, which has been played upon in public quite recently, so that there is little if anything new under the sun."
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